What our Graduates are Doing

Political science majors choose to enter many different professions. The following provides a list of some representative career paths our graduates have followed:

James Ceaser '67, Ph.D. Harvard University
Professor, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
Author of Upside Down and Inside Out, Liberal Democracy and Political Science, Reforming the Reforms and Presidential Selection

Philip Cerny '67, Ph.D. University of Manchester
Professor of Global Political Economy, Rutgers University at Newark
Author of The Changing Architecture of Politics: Structure, Agency, and the Future of the State and The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy

Brackett B. Denniston '69, J.D. Harvard Law School
Vice president and general counsel with the General Electric Company
Formerly chief legal counsel for Governor William F. Weld of Massachusetts

Barry F. Schwartz '70, J.D. Georgetown University
Executive vice president and general counsel of MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings, Inc., New York
Formerly partner with the Philadelphia law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr, and Solis-Cohen

James G. Allen '82, MBA Harvard Business School
Chief Executive Officer of eVolution Global Partners, London

Victoria Smith McKenzie '82
Director of Recruitment and Talent for ABC News, New York

Zach Space '83
House Representative for the 18th Congressional District of Ohio

Lisa Disch '83, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Author of two books: Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Cornell 1994) and The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (Columbia 2002)
Winner of the Arthur "Red" and Helene B. Motley exemplary teaching award

Julia M. Kirby '83
Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review

Aileen C. Hefferren '88
Chief executive of Prep for Prep, New York City

Bridget Brink '91
A Foreign Service Officer, she is Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Brian Mason, Esq., '98
Currently the Deputy District Attorney for Colorado's 17th judicial district, he was formerly the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, a one-year fellowship program to work for the German federal government (in Brian's case, the European Division of the German Foreign Ministry), and formerly, press secretary and Acting Chief of Staff for Congressman Pete Stark (D-California) and aide in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs

Matilda Bode '99
Former senior associate producer of documentary films with Team Video; former associate producer of documentary films, Washington Media Associates (Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy; Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report)

Jonathan P. Flaherty '00
Legislative assistant to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York)

Laura Maestas '01
Associate, McKinsey and Company, Chicago

Christian Brose '02
U.S. Department of State, speech writer for Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. Formerly assistant editor to The National Interest, and formerly assistant editor to The Public Interest.

Thomas Susman '04
Worked this past summer at the State Department on the global AIDS crisis and is currently in his first year of a two year Masters Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Molly Flanagan '07
Serves as executive assistant to the director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in Washington, D.C.

Michael R. Krantz '07
International affairs specialist, U.S. Department of Justice

Sean P. Ryan '08
Business analyst, Humana Inc.

Schrochis Karki '09
Pursuing a master's degree in development studies at Oxford University

David Mastrangelo '09
Graduate school in political management at George Washington University

Ryan Burns '09
Pursuing a master's degree in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge